Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching

✍ Scribed by Jeannette Littlemore (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
‘I see less of the surroundings. The story feels different’: Construal and Second Language Learning....Pages 13-40
More on Categories: Words, Morphemes, ‘Grammar Rules’, Phonological Features and Intonation Patterns as Radial Categories....Pages 41-70
More about Spinsters and their Cats: Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Second Language Learning....Pages 71-93
‘Eyebrow heads’ and ‘yummy mummies’: Metaphor and Second Language Learning....Pages 94-106
‘You’ll find Jane Austen in the basement’ … or will you? Metonymy and Second Language Learning....Pages 107-124
What Have Bees, Macaque Monkeys and Humans Got in Common? Embodied Cognition, Gesture and Second Language Learning....Pages 125-147
‘Loud suits’ and ‘sharp cheese’: Motivated Language and Second Language Learning....Pages 148-161
‘Brian sent Antarctica a walrus’: Construction Grammars and Second Language Learning....Pages 162-185
Conclusion....Pages 186-190
Back Matter....Pages 191-212

✦ Subjects

Language Teaching; Applied Linguistics; Linguistics, general; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Cognitive Linguistics